[The integral tetrazolium activity of the neutrophils in patients with chronic lympholeukemia].

A study is presented of the functional activity of peripheral blood neutrophils in 58 patients with chronic lympholeucosis, 27 patients with purulent-inflammatory diseases of the nasopharynx. Patients with chronic lympholeucosis were subdivided in two groups: with infectious complications and without these complications. The reaction of reduction nitroblue tetrazolium was used (Park method in modification by Shubich and Mednikova). The integral tetrazolium activity of neutrophils was determined according to a formula proposed by Drannik and Kovalev. Results indicate that determination of the functional activity of neutrophils has a high information value, allows to evaluate the potentialities of the immune system of the body and plan ways of correction.